Holder for dispensing paper bags



1952 o. J. AUBERTIN HOLDER FOR DISPENSING PAPER BAGS Filed July 7, 1950 Inventor JQAUB y ILA Patented Feb. 19, 1952 HOLDER FOR DISPENSING PAPER BAGS Ovila J. Aubertin, Matachewan, Ontario, Canada, assignor of one-half to J. Antoine Sirard, Matachewan, Ontario, Canada Application July 7, 1950, Serial No. 172,571

Claims. 1

This invention relates to improvements in a bag holder and appertains particularly to one for use with paper bags of any size and suitable for hanging on a, wall or under a counter or for resting on the counter.

.An object of the invention is to provide a holder for a supply of paper bags in which the bottom flap of the foremost bag is conveniently presented for extraction.

A further object of the invention is to provide a bag holder having a slidable, automatically locking, drawer or inner compartment that is easily and instantly releasable for falling and in which a spring-urged packer or follower leaf for progressively advancing the bags toward extracting position serves also as a stop to limit the outward or opening movement of such drawer.

A further object of the invention is to provide a handy bag holder and dispensing device of novel and compact structure that may be formed of metal, wood, plastic or other suitable material and attractively finished.

A still further object of the invention is the provision of a bag holder of the nature and for the purpose described that will prevent loss and wastage of bags, save time and labour and is capable of manufacture at reasonable cost, whereby the same is rendered commercially desirable. a

To the accomplishment of these and related objects as shall become apparent as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the construction, combination and arrangement of parts as shall be hereinafter more fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings and pointed out in the claims hereunto appended.

The invention will be best understood and can be more clearly described when reference is had to the drawings forming a part of this disclosure wherein like characters indicate like parts throughout the several views.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a preferred embodiment of the invention with interior parts shown in dotted line;

Figure 2 is a vertical longitudinal section through the bag holder, and wherein the drawer is shown also in extended position in dotted outline; and

Figure 3 is an ,enlarged perspective detail, partly in section, of the drawer-tilting and locking lug.

The container or jacket for my bag holder here shown as constructed of sheet metal is a rectangular case I of a width and height suitable to the size of bag it is designed to carry. The front 2 is entirely open except only for a depending flange 3 across the top and an up- 7 standing flange 4 across the bottom of the opening. The top 5, sides 6, back i and bottom 8 are preferably closed though in models intended to be attached to a wall or suspended under a counter, the back I may be open except for a marginal flange. The drawer member 9 normally housed in this case or jacket I has a closed front H] with a bag dispensing window ll near the top and extending for nearly the entire width thereof, sides 12 with inturned flanges l3 at'the rear and a bottom M raises above the lower edges of the sides l2 and front I0 and provided with a central slot l5 running for almost the full length of the drawer.

Movable in the drawer 9 from back to front is a bag packer or follower leaf It with a central depending finger if that slides in the slot IS in the drawer bottom. The packer is about as wide as the interior of the drawer and is prevented from rearward displacement by the flanges l3 on the drawers sides. It is slightly higher than the drawer but tapered in width near the top and so clears the inturned flanges l8 on the tops of the drawers sides l2 near the front. A wire bail l9 pivoted on the back of the packer connects with the ends of compression coil springs 29 mounted on the base 8 of the case I, near the rear. These springs, through the medium of the bail-like link l9 exert a constant and relatively uniform pressure on the packer by which a supply of bags in the holder is caused to advance progressively to the front as the bags are withdrawn one-by-one through the window II in the drawer.

The top front of the drawer 9 above the window is provided with a rearward roll 25 and an upwardly extending flange 26 offset rearwardly of the drawer front It] and rising thereabove. This flange or lip 26 engages against the rear of the top front flange 3 of the case I. From the back of the top flanges IS on the drawers sides l2, these sides decline toward the back to enable the opened drawer to tilt, as seen in dotted outline in Figure 2. At the bottom, the upstanding flange 4 of the jacket I is vertically slotted on its upper edge at both sides as at 21 to pass the lower edges of the drawer sides l2 while the drawer bottom l4 clears the flange 4 as it slides over it; the depending finger ll of the bag packet is, however, stops against the back of this flange. The drawer is further secured in closed position by the engagement of the bottom of therear inturned flanges l3, which descend below the floor M of the drawer 9, with upstanding lugs 28 on the base 8 of the jacket I, the front of which are inclined to tilt the drawer as it rides up on them to drop over the rear thereof, just as the front top lip 26 passes under the jacket flange 3, when the drawer is closed.

In use, the holder, provided with rubber strips on the bottom, if intended for resting on a counter, or suspended under the counter or on a wall or other vertical surface, is opened for n11- ing by pressing in on the bottom of the drawer which tilts it sufficiently to raise the rear side flanges [3 clear of the inclined lugs 28 and free the top offset lip 26 from the jackets front depending flange 3, whereupon the drawer slides out, with the packer leaf l6 stopped by engagement with the inside of the said flange 3. When the desired quantity of the right sized bags is loaded therein the drawer is closed by pressing back on the front .of the same approximately midway of its height when the rear side flanges l6 run up the inclined lugs 28 just tilting the front sufficient to allow the lip 26 under the front flange 3 before the rear of the drawer drops over the lugs into locked position. The compressing packer keeps the bags in upright position with the bottom fold of the frontmost bag in convenient readily available position in the drawer window.

From the foregoing description taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, it will be manifest that a bag holder is provided that will fulfil all the necessary requirements of such a device, but as many changes could be made in the above description and many apparently widely different embodiments of the invention may be constructed within the scope of the appended claims, without departing from the spirit or scope thereof, it is intended that all matters contained in the said accompanying specification and drawings shall be interpreted as illustrative and not in a limitative or restrictive sense.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim as new is:

1. A bag holder comprising a jacket with closed top, bottom and sides and an open front, a bagcarrying drawer slidable through said open front, and an inclined lug rising from the bottom of said jacket on which the rear of said drawer catches and from which it is releasable on the tilting of said drawer; the open front of said jacket having a depending flange across the top thereof against the inner side of which the top of said drawer normally engages and from which it is freed simultaneously with the release of the back of the drawer from said inclined lug on the tilting of the drawer by inwardly pressing on the front of said drawer at the bottom.

2. A bag holder comprising a rectangular jacket having an open front with a depending flange across the top and an upstanding flange across the bottom; inclined lugs rising from the bottom of said jacket; a bag-carrying drawer slidable through the open front of said jacket having a bag-exposing Window in the front with a rearwardly rolled upstanding rearwardly offset lip along the top that normally engages the rear of the jackets top front depending flange and sides on said drawer with inturned flanges at the back that ride up and normally seat behind said inclined lugs.

3. The combination with the structure set forth in claim 2 of a bottom in said drawer above the level of the lower edge of said sides and inturned rear flanges and slots at opposite sides of the bottom flange on the front of said jacket to pass the lower edges of said drawers sides.

4. The combination with the structure set forth in claim 2 of a bottom in said drawer above the level of the lower edge of said sides, an elongated central slot in said raised bottom; and a bag packer slidable in said drawer rising above the top thereof, and having a depending finger riding in said elongated, drawer bottom slot.

5. The combination with the structure set forth in claim 2 of a packer in said drawer, a baillike member in the back thereof and a compression coil spring mounted on the bottom of said jacket and connected to said packer bail.

OVILA J. AUBERTIN.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 1,363,524 McNamara Dec. 28, 1920 1,901,243 Horwitt Mar. 14, 1933 

